The Funeral.com Journal

Resources to help you create tributes as unique as the people (and pets) you love. Learn how engraving, photos, colors, and symbols add meaning; discover scattering rituals and at-home memorial ideas. We focus on the details that matter—because small choices can carry a lifetime of comfort.

Pre-Planning Your Funeral Online: Tools, Services, and What to Compare Before You Commit - Funeral.com, Inc.

Pre-Planning Your Funeral Online: Tools, Services, and What to Compare Before You Commit

It often starts quietly. A late-night search. A tab left open after reading a friend’s post about their parent’s funeral. A moment when you realize that if something happened tomorrow,...

How to Create a Digital Vault for Passwords and 2FA Before You Die - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Create a Digital Vault for Passwords and 2FA Before You Die

The first time a family gets stuck, it rarely looks dramatic. It looks like a phone that won’t unlock. A laptop that keeps asking for a password nobody knows. A...

AI Grief Bots: The Ethics of “Talking” to the Dead - Funeral.com, Inc.

AI Grief Bots: The Ethics of “Talking” to the Dead

There’s a particular kind of silence that settles in after a death—after the calls, after the casseroles, after the first week when time feels both frozen and fast. For many...

Instagram Memorialization vs. Deletion: Which Should You Choose? - Funeral.com, Inc.

Instagram Memorialization vs. Deletion: Which Should You Choose?

In the first days after a death, families often move between two worlds at once. One world is paperwork, phone calls, and decisions that feel strangely practical in the middle...

What Is a Facebook Legacy Contact (and How to Set It Up) - Funeral.com, Inc.

What Is a Facebook Legacy Contact (and How to Set It Up)

In the days after a death, families often discover that grief comes with a second kind of work: closing loops. Phone calls. Paperwork. Decisions about services. And then, quietly, the...

How to Livestream a Funeral: Tech Setup, Privacy, and Including Remote Guests - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Livestream a Funeral: Tech Setup, Privacy, and Including Remote Guests

When someone you love dies, distance can feel like a second loss layered on top of the first. A cousin who can’t get a flight in time. A grandparent whose...

Digital Funeral Planning Tools: Apps and Websites to Organize Arrangements Online - Funeral.com, Inc.

Digital Funeral Planning Tools: Apps and Websites to Organize Arrangements Online

When someone dies, the hard part is not that there are “too many decisions.” The hard part is that decisions, documents, and emotions all land at the same time. A...

Digital Executors: Who They Are and Why You Need One - Funeral.com, Inc.

Digital Executors: Who They Are and Why You Need One

A few days after someone dies, the world keeps doing what it always does. Phones buzz. Emails arrive. A streaming service charges a card on file. A “memories” notification appears...

What Happens to Your World of Warcraft Account and Gold When You Die? - Funeral.com, Inc.

What Happens to Your World of Warcraft Account and Gold When You Die?

For many players, Azeroth isn’t “just a game.” It’s where you spent late nights after work, where you celebrated a first clear with people who became real friends, where a...

Creating a Goodbye Video Message to Send After You Die: A Practical, Private Guide - Funeral.com, Inc.

Creating a Goodbye Video Message to Send After You Die: A Practical, Private Guide

Most people don’t set out to make a “legacy video.” They start with something simpler: the wish that the people they love won’t feel alone in the quiet weeks after....

Grief Tech: The Best Apps for Storing Memories in 2026 (Privacy-First Options Included) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Grief Tech: The Best Apps for Storing Memories in 2026 (Privacy-First Options Included)

In the first weeks after a loss, people often assume the hardest part will be the big moments: the service, the phone calls, the paperwork. But many families discover a...

How to Access a Deceased Loved One’s Android Phone (Legally, Without Bypassing Security) - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Access a Deceased Loved One’s Android Phone (Legally, Without Bypassing Security)

After someone dies, their phone can feel like a small vault of a whole life: family photos you didn’t realize they saved, message threads that explain a sudden decision, notes...

What Happens to Your TikTok Drafts When You Die? - Funeral.com, Inc.

What Happens to Your TikTok Drafts When You Die?

TikTok can feel oddly intimate, even when you never post. A draft is a half-finished story, a joke you meant to send to your sister, a voiceover you recorded at...

LinkedIn Ghost Profiles: How to Report a Death, Memorialize, or Close the Account - Funeral.com, Inc.

LinkedIn Ghost Profiles: How to Report a Death, Memorialize, or Close the Account

A few weeks after someone dies, the world keeps moving in ways that can feel strangely sharp. A calendar reminder pings. A bank statement arrives. And sometimes, a LinkedIn notification...

Can You Inherit Airline Miles When Your Spouse Dies? What’s Legal vs. What Airlines Allow - Funeral.com, Inc.

Can You Inherit Airline Miles When Your Spouse Dies? What’s Legal vs. What Airlines Allow

In the days after a death, life gets divided into two kinds of tasks: the ones that feel sacred, and the ones that feel strangely administrative. You might be choosing...

NFT Inheritance: How to Transfer Digital Art After Death (Wallets, Marketplaces & Probate) - Funeral.com, Inc.

NFT Inheritance: How to Transfer Digital Art After Death (Wallets, Marketplaces & Probate)

The first week after a death rarely feels like the movies. It’s paperwork and phone calls. It’s a quiet house with a loud inbox. It’s a family trying to choose...